The University of North Carolina announced it will forfeit football victories from the 2008 and 2009 seasons, reduce scholarships by three for the next three years and self-impose two years of probation. The school announced these penalties in the hope the NCAA will accept these sanctions, and let the school remain bowl eligible for this season and next. UNC is scheduled to appear before the NCAA on October 28. The NCAA can accept the self-imposed sanctions or add to them. Forfeiting victories has become a popular throw away item for schools recently, since the games have already been played and the revenue from tickets  and television has already been collected. The issue here is if the NCAA will view the UNC violations in a similar fashion to the University of Southern California which was recently hit with a two year bowl ban. (To refresh your memory on the USC sanctions, see this link)

 

The sanctions offered by UNC would allow the program to continue on without too much of a hit, but a bowl ban would certainly hit the school hard, especially with the current 3-0 record in Chapel Hill.